How to Have Fun When Punished

If you have time between when you get home from school and when your parents get home, start thinking about what you can do during the evening, like read a book or listen to music. If you want to stay out after school for a while, tell your parents that you have to stay after class for an interview with some teacher.

Hide your things. We know, parents will hide everything from you, iPod, cell phone and anything else they can find.If you have a cardboard box or shoe box, put your cell phone, iPod, Gameboy there and hide everything under the covers of your bed.This works best if you have thick blankets or a duvet, so if that's the case, look for a thick enough blanket.

If you miss something, like swimming, cry and cry and hold your breath until, hopefully, your parents get tired and say: "Okay, go ahead." Don't put too much hope in this method though.Its success depends on how manipulable your parents are, and if they aren't you will only end up making your situation even worse.

If you're lucky and have a stereo in your room, they might seize the plug (if it's separable). In this case, take the plug from the living room stereo or a television to still have your music with you.They probably won't try to hide the entire stereo from you (this is because parents seem to enjoy seeing that you haven't noticed something missing, so they wouldn't hide something that big from you) but if they do, or if they have done so in the past, Hide your CDs and iPod to prevent them from being found.

Hide a CD player (which you can buy cheaply at a garage sale, and which is small enough to hide easily) if you use CDs, and use it at night to avoid your parents catching you in the act. Be careful not to buy one with too loud buttons but your parents, if they have super hearing, could still hear when you open/close the CD door or when you press the buttons if you are not careful.

If and when your parents leave the house, use that time to watch TV, but remember the channel they turned it off on.

Use the computer secretly if you can... but remember to hide every trace!You can also use computers at school if you want, but remember that some schools do not allow computers to be used for anything other than educational purposes.

Stay up late and watch TV secretly -- on this site you will find many guides on how to stay up late.

If you have a video camera, you can make videos of yourself dancing to silly songs and upload them to YouTube when you're no longer in detention.

If you don't have a video camera, dancing to the silliest songs is still the most fun thing you can do alone, all you need to do is look in the mirror to have fun!

Write something on the bathroom mirror using a bar of soap. Things like:"Help!I'm being held hostage by adults!" will make your parents smile and soften their stance.

Turn things upside down. Are there any photographs on the living room shelf?Place one upside down.Hang up the calendars, in short, use your imagination.

Invite your friends when your parents aren't there. Use your sister or brother's cell phone if yours has been confiscated.

When your parents are away, take your things back and use them until they return, but remember to put them back exactly where they were and leave no traces.